Drawing Jams!

My blog layout is mostly stabilized now! Thanks to everyone who put up with the disorganized state it was in and out of for a bit!

Here are the drawing jams I've done for http://tarasdrawingjam.blogspot.ca/ this term!

 

This drawing jam consisted of taking one of the outfits, and designing a character in them. The extra challenge was to do it in How to Train You Dragon's concept art style, so while I didn't copy the style exactly, I used it as influence on the character design. :)

In this drawing jam, we had to design a character that would fit into the stock backgrounds supplied. I thought it was a good opportunity to play with some fun magic stuff!

This one is pretty self explanatory, ha ha. We took a character and had them do 25 expressions. Some of the better ones have already been posted on the blog. :)

 

 

In which the challenge was to draw a muscular character, bonus if in the style of Mike Mignolia. Again, I mostly used the style challenge as influence and went off on my own path from there. It was fun, though! Seeing his art really makes me want to read Hellboy now!

 

This drawing jam was the Lady Knights Randomizer by http://dogbomber.tumblr.com/. As I originally posted just the sketch, it's only fair I keep the sketch up along with the clean version!

Blog Cleanup

I've started cleaning up my blog; specific pages will be added, the template will be changed, and a few of my previous posts will be edited/deleted.

So the blog might look messy for a bit; sorry for the inconvenience!

Life Drawing Update!

I just realized I haven't updated my blog at all this term, so here's a few things I've done for life drawing that haven't been uploaded, newest to oldest.
We've recently been experimenting with branding, so my name style and the colors on the pages are, for now, all different, ha ha.

We've been focusing a lot on force and characterization this term in life drawing. It's been challenging to loosen up, but really fun so far! I can see a lot of improvement! :)

Update!

A few things I've done from this term that I should post up!

We had to design a creature and skeleton for a class project. I made sure to challenge myself by making something that wasn't supposed to be cute. Well...too cute; it's still a little cute.

 

The shoulder pads look like they don't belong because they don't; I didn't get to play around too much for this, but he tends to steal body parts from his enemies and use them as extra armor. :)

We had a project where we had to design a character using the style of Xmen Evolution, using only the model sheets the instructor provided. It was actually really fun to do, and I learned a lot from it!

 

Doing clean up with pencil again was odd, I'm so used to digital clean up now. But it was fun!

Life drawing assignment focusing on gestures. Most of these were 30 second to 1 minute long gestures, with about one 2 minute gesture- the one in the top left corner. It was challenging, but I definitely feel I improved in speed and accuracy with this assignment!